Posted on 05/16/2008 12:31:37 PM PDT by Swordmaker
That's one of the little things that bugs the *&^% out of me on Windows. On a Mac, if I want to copy a URL from the address bar to paste into an e-mail or AIM, it's a piece of cake -- shift-up-arrow goes to the beginning, shift-down-arrow selects the line, and command-C copies. Windows one-line text fields also don't seem to have a consistent double- and triple-click behavior.
In fairness, there might be an equally simple way to do that in Windows, but it's not as automatic to me.
That's one of the little things that bugs the *&^% out of me on Windows. On a Mac, if I want to copy a URL from the address bar to paste into an e-mail or AIM, it's a piece of cake -- shift-up-arrow goes to the beginning, shift-down-arrow selects the line, and command-C copies. Windows one-line text fields also don't seem to have a consistent double- and triple-click behavior.
In fairness, there might be an equally simple way to do that in Windows, but it's not as automatic to me.
That's not really true. Last year's $1600 pc used quality capacitors, power supplies and other components. This year's $400 pc has the same CPU, but the motherboard was made by some random factory in China, with electrical components from a factory that stole the electrolyte formula in the capacitors so they leak in 9 months and a power supply that can't regulate the voltage properly.
Many, if not most, Windows crashes are related to hardware problems
Oh, and Control-Home or Control-End doesn’t work in all of *Microsoft’s* own applications. In Publisher, for example, Control-End moves you to the end of the text field (and if you’re not in a text field it either doesn’t work or PUTS you in a text field), not to the end of the document. In Access, it doesn’t move the page at all, it *immediately* takes you to the last field in the last record in the file. In PowerPoint, it works like Publisher, and it doesn’t work at ALL in Visio.
In windows, the first click selects the entire address. Otherwise, click on the address, then hit ctrl-a, ctrl-c to select all and copy.
Except... it doesn’t always work that way. Depends on what version of IE you happen to be running at the time, etc., etc.
Luigi.
I know I'm being nasty but so is that drunken slob.
:-)
It consistent in IE7 and Firefox on XP.
Ctrl-a, Ctrl-c also works in Linux and Apple-a, Apple-c works on a Mac.
I still haven’t transferred my LDS Personal Ancestry Files over to my mac because I’m afraid I’ll screw things up making the mac run windows files. Do I use Crossover? Parallel?
What’s the best software for the PAF?
(sigh)
Well yes, I don’t care for either OS, I just care less for Macs than for my modified Windows.
The thing is I've been a Windows user since the 286 version and I still am. When it came time to replace my main home system I decided on a Mac instead of Windows again, and I got what I believe was a good value.
What you perceive as superiority is a bunch of people who have found something much, much better and want to help others by letting them know. The only problem is most responses are full of the above myths ("ungodly amount of dough") instead of being informed.
I’ve always had at least two PCs since 1994. I’ve never spent more than $600 on one
That's hard to believe unless you were buying old, used stuff. A fairly loaded 486 cost well over $2,000 in 1994 (which was after the Pentiums came out as the high-end machines). I didn't hear about sub-$1,000 machines until the late 90s.
It comes with a short version. The dictionary I’m talking about is the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary. It comes in 20 printed volumes or 1 CD-ROM. It Contains more of a history of the English language. They do not have a version that runs on a Mac. Seems crazy to me but c’est la vive.
Just copy the files, then use this:
http://www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/AboutPAWriter.html
I have written a freeware genealogy program, Personal Ancestry Writer II (PAWriter II), for the Macintosh, one version for MacOS 9.x and one for MacOS X. It combines most of the features of the LDS Personal Ancestral File program (PAF) for the Macintosh (for which all development stopped a few years ago after release 2.3.1), with additional features that generate web pages (in HTML), word processing files (in RTF for, e.g., AppleWorks) and desktop publishing files (in MML for FrameMaker). The generated report files include genealogical dictionaries, registers, ahnentafels and lineages—such as appear on this site—as well as some interesting text files and pedigree charts.
The Mac OS X dock hiding option has been available since the first beta versions were released nearly eight years ago.
But the fact is, with their machines, if the dock is hidden and something is dragged to it, it doesn't come up and allow itself to be dropped on.
This means the dock has to be made really small to allow as much real estate as possible.
Thanks for jogging my memory. That Mac is probably running in “Parental Control” mode (in System Preferences/Accounts), which has a Finder checkbox option for “Modify the Dock”. That seems like a reasonable restriction for a public-access computer.
Very true. I knew the author wasn't speaking in absolutes and neither was I.
However, there are quite a lot of people such as myself who think nothing of planning and building their own systems to save money and get quality components.
And there are those who will purposely seek out machines that are available with no bundling in order to start with a fresh install. And those numbers have grown quite a lot in recent years. Yet there are still large numbers of 'unsophisticated' users who buy the machines with bundled crapware, as you say, because they don't know any better.
Good thing for me because I get decent money from a lot of folks to expunge this crapware and secure their machines with lean, efficient applications to guard against further exposure.
Ah, thanks - I'll look for that next time and see.
/bingo
(multiple)
The low end Mac is $599. It compares favorably with the low end PCs that are in its price range. And it doesn’t come with the bloatware that haunts cheap Windows machines.
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